Gabrielle baked a berry pie. The recipe called for 6 ounces of blackberries, 9 ounces of raspberries, and 5 ounces of strawberries. In the supermarket, she only found 12-ounce containers of berries. She bought 1 container of each kind of berry. After she baked the pie, how many ounces of berries did Gabrielle have left?

3 answers

(12-6) + (12-9) + (12-5) = 6+3+7 = ____
16 ounces
Correct, Gabrielle had 16 ounces of berries left.